Re: Ebisedian tutorial

H. S. Teoh sikyal:

> help, I (badly) need feedback. So I'd really appreciate it if people would
> please take a look at the initial draft of the tutorial here:
>
> (PostScript)    http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.ps
> (PDF)           http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.pdf
>
> And tell me if it's clear, or still as obtuse as ever. Especially
> section 2, which talks about noun cases. (Noun cases appear to be the most
> confusing part of Ebisedian to people, it seems. That's why I'm covering
> that first.)
I found this tutorial quite clear and easy to understand. In fact,
explained this way, I fail to see how people could find these concepts
difficult in the first place--but perhaps I'm prejudiced by the fact that
I've sketched out conlangs with very similar systems.

Incidental remarks: I'd always disliked Ebisedan based on its unconsciably
ugly ASCII representation scheme, but seeing it in the PDF as it was
"supposed" to look, I found it quite pleasant. What a surprise! I also
assumed that the graphs you used for vowels were more or less IPA values,
except that there is one letter that looks like a lower-case omega on my
screen, which is not an IPA character. How is that pronounced?


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/

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